The EPA Vs Hollywood Advantage Hollywood

The EPA Vs Hollywood Advantage Hollywood

Even the most dis­en­gaged per­son in the coun­try knows that for all the talk of artistry Hol­ly­wood is pretty much a PR machine.

Hol­ly­wood pushes all kinds of movies: fan­tasy, action, come­dies, kid flicks. There are all kinds of actors, A list stars, char­ac­ter actors, unknowns, You see war, peace love and lessons, CGI and live action but when it comes down to it, all the spe­cial effects, big names, and loca­tions are about cre­at­ing an image and sell­ing that image to you.

That’s the job of Hol­ly­wood, That’s PR.

The movie indus­try pulls out all the stops to do this. Accord­ing to Ad week the motion pic­ture indus­try as a whole spent 3.2 bil­lion in 2012 on adver­tis­ing their prod­uct from TV to the Inter­net and every­where else.

The movies Fox made fea­tured stars that are house­hold names: Nico­las Cage, Emma Stone, Hugh Jack­man, Famke Janssen, Bruce Willis, Rosie Perez, Brad Pitt, Pene­lope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, Justin Tim­ber­lake, Ben Affleck. You see them on posters; you’ve watched them on the morn­ing show, on day­time talk on late night shows pitch­ing their pic­tures. You’ve seen the ads on TV, and the trail­ers and posters at the movie the­aters when they came out and on Cable as you browse though the on demand menus.

In 2013 Fox spent $303,000,000 to pro­mote those 13 movies. While some of that money filled seats and some did not, it’s almost a given that even if you didn’t go to see those pic­tures if I rat­tled off their names you would have likely heard of them and even if you didn’t remem­ber much about the movies you would know the stars.

Bot­tom line all that Hol­ly­wood PR money made its mark in your memory.

And that oddly enough brings us to the EPA and a report put out by a group called Open the Books. As indi­cated by the name, they are all about trans­parency in gov­ern­ment spending.

Their lat­est report details spend­ing by the EPA from 2000 to 2014 and there are a lot of things in that report that really jump out at you.

Since 2000 they have given out dou­ble in grants than the entire Bill and Melinda Gates Foun­da­tion has in total assets. (p1)

Their 2015 bud­get this year is higher than the bud­gets of 8 states(p1)

A full 1⁄3 of EPA employ­ees (over 10,000) posi­tion make over $100 a year. (p31)

But what really jumped out at me was the spend­ing on PR:

198 ‘Pub­lic Affairs’ employ­ees (FY2012) were employed by EPA. Since 2007, EPA spent over $141,495,571 in salaries and another $1.5 mil­lion in per­for­mance bonuses. The EPA also spent $15,093,088 with out­side pub­lic rela­tions con­sul­tants to fur­ther but­tress PR. ‘Pub­lic Affairs’ ranked 16th most paid salary title at EPA since FY2007.

So between out­side PR firms and inter­nal “pub­lic affairs” employ­ees that comes to over $150 mil­lion dol­lars over 8 years on PR.

To put that in per­spec­tive that’s more than the pro­duc­tion bud­gets of the 2013 Fox releases , Run­ner Run­ner, A Good day to die hard and The coun­selor com­bined. Those three pic­tures fea­tured Justin Tim­ber­lake, Ben Affleck, Bruce Willis, Pene­lope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, Rosie Perez and Brad Pitt.

So given those facts three things imme­di­ately leap to mind.

How can the EPA spend 19.7 mil­lion a year on PR with­out, you know, actu­ally pro­mot­ing anything?

When Hol­ly­wood pro­motes a movie you see the posters every­where, you see the stars on TV, you hear them on radio, you are bom­barded with infor­ma­tion to the point where even if you want to for­get about a movie or a star, you can’t. It pops into your head.

I defy any­one to come up with any­thing the EPA has pro­moted that you have heard of? The only thing you have likely heard at all con­cern­ing the EPA con­cern­ing that nasty mine spill that turned a river orange. That’s some­thing the EPA is doing their best to make you forget.

If the EPA is spend­ing mil­lions pro­mot­ing some­thing they’re doing don’t you think some­one in the coun­try might have heard of it?

If we aren’t the tar­get of that 19.7 mil­lion a year pr WHOIS?

Ok if the EPA is spend­ing 19.7 mil­lion a year to PR peo­ple and they aren’t try­ing to adver­tise or pro­mote the EPA to the pub­lic and the tax­payer who are they spinning?

You’re talk­ing a group of employ­ees with an aver­age wage of $90K that’s not chicken feed, you are spend­ing the more than hit movies cost. We know a movie maker is try­ing to sell their prod­uct to the view­ing pub­lic, exactly who is the EPA spend­ing all this money try­ing to sell? Who is the tar­get and what is their goal?

Have we run out of sites that need clean­ing or inspect­ing? Is the air and water so clean , the species so safe and our coun­try so unpol­luted that we have the extra to blow on this kind of thing?

I think those are excel­lent ques­tions, I think it would be really inter­est­ing to get the answers.

Don’t you?

Even the most disengaged person in the country knows that for all the talk of artistry Hollywood is pretty much a PR machine.

Hollywood pushes all kinds of movies: fantasy, action, comedies, kid flicks. There are all kinds of actors, A list stars, character actors, unknowns, You see war, peace love and lessons, CGI and live action but when it comes down to it, all the special effects, big names, and locations are about creating an image and selling that image to you.

That’s the job of Hollywood, That’s PR.

The movie industry pulls out all the stops to do this. According to Ad week the motion picture industry as a whole spent 3.2 billion in 2012 on advertising their product from TV to the Internet and everywhere else.

The movies Fox made featured stars that are household names: Nicolas Cage, Emma Stone, Hugh Jackman, Famke Janssen, Bruce Willis, Rosie Perez, Brad Pitt, Penelope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, Justin Timberlake, Ben Affleck. You see them on posters; you’ve watched them on the morning show, on daytime talk on late night shows pitching their pictures. You’ve seen the ads on TV, and the trailers and posters at the movie theaters when they came out and on Cable as you browse though the on demand menus.

In 2013 Fox spent $303,000,000 to promote those 13 movies. While some of that money filled seats and some did not, it’s almost a given that even if you didn’t go to see those pictures if I rattled off their names you would have likely heard of them and even if you didn’t remember much about the movies you would know the stars.

Bottom line all that Hollywood PR money made its mark in your memory.

And that oddly enough brings us to the EPA and a report put out by a group called Open the Books. As indicated by the name, they are all about transparency in government spending.

Their latest report details spending by the EPA from 2000 to 2014 and there are a lot of things in that report that really jump out at you.

Since 2000 they have given out double in grants than the entire Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has in total assets. (p1)

Their 2015 budget this year is higher than the budgets of 8 states(p1)

A full 1/3 of EPA employees (over 10,000) position make over $100 a year. (p31)

But what really jumped out at me was the spending on PR:

198 ‘Public Affairs’ employees (FY2012) were employed by EPA. Since 2007, EPA spent over $141,495,571 in salaries and another $1.5 million in performance bonuses. The EPA also spent $15,093,088 with outside public relations consultants to further buttress PR. ‘Public Affairs’ ranked 16th most paid salary title at EPA since FY2007.

So between outside PR firms and internal “public affairs” employees that comes to over $150 million dollars over 8 years on PR.

To put that in perspective that’s more than the production budgets of the 2013 Fox releases , Runner Runner, A Good day to die hard and The counselor combined. Those three pictures featured Justin Timberlake, Ben Affleck, Bruce Willis, Penelope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, Rosie Perez and Brad Pitt.

So given those facts three things immediately leap to mind.

How can the EPA spend 19.7 million a year on PR without, you know, actually promoting anything?

When Hollywood promotes a movie you see the posters everywhere, you see the stars on TV, you hear them on radio, you are bombarded with information to the point where even if you want to forget about a movie or a star, you can’t. It pops into your head.

I defy anyone to come up with anything the EPA has promoted that you have heard of? The only thing you have likely heard at all concerning the EPA concerning that nasty mine spill that turned a river orange. That’s something the EPA is doing their best to make you forget.

If the EPA is spending millions promoting something they’re doing don’t you think someone in the country might have heard of it?

If we aren’t the target of that 19.7 million a year pr WHO IS?

Ok if the EPA is spending 19.7 million a year to PR people and they aren’t trying to advertise or promote the EPA to the public and the taxpayer who are they spinning?

You’re talking a group of employees with an average wage of $90K that’s not chicken feed, you are spending the more than hit movies cost. We know a movie maker is trying to sell their product to the viewing public, exactly who is the EPA spending all this money trying to sell? Who is the target and what is their goal?

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